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Try painting the bowl with undiluted white gouache.
I love to see the different ways people tackled the bowl in this design.
Courtesy of @paintedthimble, Tracey Pilling.
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White Narcissi, a hand embroidery kit featuring pale narcissi, willow twigs and buds in a bowl of moss

What's in the kit?

  • A hand-embroidery kit featuring fresh white narcissi and silky willow buds in a bowl of moss. This design accompanied Issue 5 of The Stitcher's Journal as a Stitcher's Journal collection kit. The bowl offers scope for personal creativity, something I always like to incorporate in each of my hand embroidery kits.
  • A piece of antique French linen hand-printed in the UK by Caroline with the design.
  • A thread card loaded with all the threads you will need to complete the kit or empty if you choose 'no threads'. Some people have stitched this more than once, using yellows and creams.
  • A beautifully produced card folder printed with clear, step-by-step instructions including an actual-size drawing annotated with stitch and thread details.

"I really enjoyed stitching this design. It was one of my early attempts at embroidery and I loved it...it took hours of stitching but the end result was so pretty!"

Additional Information

Price range: £32.00 through £53.00

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Additional Information

This kit is one that I most enjoyed designing and stitching, inspired by a bowl of white narcissi I planted with pussy-willow twigs and moss. If you are a beginner, you will find guides to my favourite embroidery stitches in the Free Downloads section of the shop. I am self-taught and so really try to guide you through each step with my instructions. The bowl is left for you to embroider as you wish. It looks quite interesting when painted with undiluted white gouache, leaving some of the linen visible (see gallery image). Nothing to stop you stitching underneath the paint or over its surface for a ‘studio pottery’ look. You can download my FREE guide to painting on linen for embroideries in the FREE DOWNLOADS section here. 

 

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PLEASE NOTE

Update for US customers

2 September 2025

Just a brief update to say that  Royal Mail and Parcelforce have merged and come up with a fantastic new system. It just requires some serious tweaks to the website, so if US customers could just hold off for a few more days while I ascertain precisely where we stand, and my website developer implements the changes which will enable us to send kits and journals ‘fully landed’, with the customer seeing the duty paid at the checkout. The Stitcher’s Journal is free of duty. My embroidery kits bear 11.4%. My bundles of used fabrics are also free of duty. So we are just setting up accounts and integrating the website, and I am very hopeful that any price increases will be minimal.

I am taking the opportunity to re-stock the website at the same time, so that we can re-open with some new things on offer. I am also working on Issue 26 of The Stitcher’s Journal to come out later this month.

Changes can be unsettling, but sometimes, once one gets to grips with them, things don’t look so bad so I just want to reassure my US customers that it is not all doom and gloom.

A newsletter will be going out as soon as everything is set up. I am also confident that I can soon open up to the EU again; I have an online meeting with a Product Safety Compliance Company in which I hope to demonstrate that neither The Stitcher’s Journal nor my embroidery kits pose a danger to anyone. 

Thank you for your patience and supportive messages, each one just spurs me on, even after a long day buried in the Harmonised Tariff Schedule, which actually makes the most fascinating and distracting reading!

With very best wishes,
Caroline